ls -l reports the number of blocks allocated to the directory. On Mon, Oct 30, 2023 at 9:54 AM Rich Shepard <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Oct 2023, Bill Barry wrote: > > > get the inode number from the first field returned by > > ls -li > > then delete based on that inode number > > find . -inum 123488 -delete > > Bill, > > # ls -li > total 12 > 4248357 -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11640 Oct 29 07:45 > 8a203b79706a7fd3dcbeb5c173e4e8-134?648.o* > > Why 12? There's only one non-hidden file there. > > # find . -inum 4248357 -delete > find: cannot delete `./8a203b79706a7fd3dcbeb5c173e4e8-134\021648.o': No > such file or directory > > Notice the `?' has been replaced by the octal \021. > > Thanks for the suggestion. > > Regards, > > Rich >
